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Table 1 Disposition codes and response rates by survey design

From: Mixing modes in a population-based interview survey: comparison of a sequential and a concurrent mixed-mode design for public health research

 

Concurrent mixed-mode design

Sequential mixed-mode design

 

AAPOR-code

n

% gross sample

% clean gross sample

n

% gross sample

% clean gross sample

Gross sample

 

3360

100%

 

3360

100%

 

Not Eligible

 No eligible respondent

4.70

140

4.2%

 

154

4.6%

 

Clean gross sample

 

3220

95.8%

100%

3206

95.4%

100%

Complete interviews

1.0

617

 

19.2%

561

 

17.5%

Eligible, “Non-Interview”

 Refusal

2.11

183

 

5.7%

177

 

5.5%

 Break-off or partial with insufficient information

2.12

8

 

0.2%

16

 

0.5%

 Non-Contact: Nothing ever returned

2.21

2272

 

70.6%

2387

 

74.5%

 Respondent unavailable during field period

2.25

8

 

0.2%

5

 

0.2%

 Physically or mentally unable

2.32

23

 

0.7%

27

 

0.8%

 Miscellaneous

2.36

      

 Signed privacy declaration not returned

51

 

1.6%

30

 

0.9%

 Questionnaire returned with wrong birthdate (wrong Respondent)

58

 

1.8%

3

 

0.1%

 Response ratea

   

19.2%

  

17.5%

  1. a“Response rate 1” in accordance with the American Association for Public Opinion Research (2011). p = 0.085 (chi-square)